Faucet attachment.



PATENTED SEPT. 17, 1907.

J. FLEURY. FAUCET ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20.1900.

JOSEPH FLEURY, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

FAUGE'I ATTAGHlVIENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1907 Applieation filed September 20,1906. Serial No. 335,459.

tachments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to pail-supporting attachinents to faucets, whereby a pail may be held or supported by its bail on the faucet during the operation of filling said pail from the discharge spout of the former.

It is the object of the invention to provide an attachment for faucets, capable of performing the aforesaid functions, and that may be connected with the faucet by being simply sprung upon the valve-neck or dome, without disconnecting or removing any parts or modifying the construction or form of the faucet.

It is also the object of the invention to provide an attachment that will be held from tipping up at its rear or inner end, when the hail of a pail or the like is hung on in front, and so keeping the projecting hook part in front from lopping down so that the bail will slip off therefrom.

The invention is clearly portrayed in the annexed drawings, forming a part of this'specification, in view of which said drawings the invention will first be described with respect to its construction and mode of operation, and then be pointed out in the subjoined claims.

Of the said drawings:Figure l is a side view of a faucet or spigot having my improved attachment applied thereto for use. Fig. 2 is a plan of the improved attachment. Fig. 3 is a plan of a slightly modified form.

Similar numerals of reference designate similar parts or features, as the casemay be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings 10 designates a spigot or faucet of common construction having the usual discharge spout 11, and the handle 12 through the medium of which the valve (not shown) controlling the flow and shutting off of the water is effected. 13 is the dome on the spigot or faucet through which the stem 14 of the valve extends from the handle 12. i

My improvement consists of a length of stout spring steel wire, or other suitable material, in effect doubled upon itself, forming a loop 15 at its center which loop is upturned at its end to constitute a hook 16. Rear- Wardly from the hook 16 the wires are bent together or toward each other so as to constitute a neck 17 and to the rear of the neck the said wires are bent slightly out- Ward in opposite directions and inward again toward each other, each semi-circularly, as at 18, and at their extremities, which may be brought nearly together,

, turned down on the top of the dome.

they are turned vertically up at right angles to the plane of the portions 18, as indicated at 19.

In some cases I may cross the doubled wires from one side to the other at the point 20 between the neck 17 and semi-circular bends 18, as seen in Fig. 3.

In the useof my invention I attach it to a spigot or faucet by simply spreading the two free upturned ends 19 slightly if necessary, placing them in position at opposite sides of the front of the dome or neck 13, and then pressing rearwardly on the hook end, force said free ends 19 back on opposite sides of the dome to its rear side, causing the semi-circular bends 18 to clasp or embrace the dome tightly, the two upturned ends 19 extending under the flange of the screw cap 21 Under these circumstances, in addition to what has already been explained, the neck 17 of the attachment will lie on top of the spigot in front of the dome, and the hook 16 projecting forward of the neck will curl upward at its end and be of such breadth as to support the bail of a pail or similar part of a vessel thereon, without any liability of being tipped so as to cause the bail to slip off: while the 'vessel is being filled through the spout of the spigot, the upturned ends 19 acting against the bottom of the screw cap preventing any such mishap as that mentioned.

The fact that the dome-embracing arms are open at their rear ends so that the attachment can be secured in place on a faucet by simply forcing said arms rearwardly astride the neck without disconnecting or unhooking and rehooking any of the parts; and the further fact that the upturned extremities of the dome embracing arms take under the flange of the faucet cap, are important features of the invention. Moreover, its simplicity of construction which renders it ready of manufacture, easy of application, and low in cost, provides an article of manufacture having substantially free course into general use.

That is claimed is 1. As an article of manufacture, a faucet attachment composed of a length of Wire bent upon itself and forming a loop at its middle, said loop being turned up to consti tute a hook, the Wires at the rear of the hook being brought together to form a neck, and rearwardly of the hook being given an approximately semicircular form and their separated extremities being bent up at right angles to, the plane of the adjacent portions.

2. As an article of manufacture, a faucet attachment composed of a length of wire bent to form a hooked end to rest on top of the spout, clasping arms adapted to en gage the sides of the dome and provided at its rear with upturned ends adapted to engage the lower surface of the flange of the screw-cap.

In testimony whereof, I aihx my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH FLEURY.

Witnesses L. A. COMIRE, L. S. BOIVIN. 

